Circumstances Quotes - Page 31

• I got used to dealing with groups of boys and getting on with life in unpleasant circumstances and being smart and funny and subversive at the expense of authority.

  Eric Idle

  Smart, Boys, Groups

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is sufficiently evident from many circumstances, that the doctrine of the divinity of Christ did not establish itself without much opposition, especially from the unlearned among the Christians, who thought that it savoured of Polytheism , that it was introduced by those who had had a philosophical education, and was by degrees adopted by others, on account of its covering the great offence of the cross , by exalting the personal dignity of our Saviour.

  Joseph Priestley

  Christian, Philosophical, Divinity

  Joseph Priestley (1871). “A History of the Corruptions of Christianity”, p.19

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• To teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.

  Roger Scruton

  Mean, Emotion, Virtue

  "Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged". Book by Roger Scruton, 2007.

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• If we can sympathise only with the utterly blameless, then we can sympathise with no one, for all of us have contributed to our own misfortunes - it is a consequence of the human condition that we should. But it does nobody any favours to disguise from him the origins of his misfortunes, and pretend that they are all external to him in circumstances in which they are not.

  Anthony Daniels

  Doe, Favour, Should

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• When a man paints a naked woman he gives her less than poor Nature did. I can conceive of few circumstances wherein I would have to paint a woman naked, but if I did I would not mutilate her for double the money. She is the most beautiful thing there is except a naked man, but I never saw a study of one exhibited.

  Thomas Eakins

  Beautiful, Men, Giving

  Thomas Eakins, Lloyd Goodrich, Whitney Museum of American Art (1970). “Thomas Eakins: retrospective exhibition, September 22 to November 21, 1970, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York”

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• More attention to the History of Science is needed, as much by scientists as by historians, and especially by biologists, and this should mean a deliberate attempt to understand the thoughts of the great masters of the past, to see in what circumstances or intellectual milieu their ideas were formed, where they took the wrong turning or stopped short on the right track.

  Ronald Fisher

  Mean, Past, Ideas

  "Natural selection from the genetical standpoint". "Australian Journal of Earth Sciences" Peer-reviewed journal, 1959.

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• Our world is integrated to an unprecedented degree, while the global political awakening is injecting into interstate relations an intense amount of tension, emotion, even irrationality, which could cumulatively produce circumstances that preclude an effective and genuinely shared universal response to new global problems.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Our World, Political, Degrees

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• Why does a woman carry a gun? Because, under our system, every citizen has the latitude to act in the absence of police; the latitude to act reasonably, to act immediately, to act in defense of self, to act in defense of another, to act with lethal force, to act with her acquired training and to act not in anger but to respond in purpose. To exercise the protections of that latitude in public policy, public interest and practical safety, all that is demanded of her is that she act reasonably under the circumstances.

  John Longenecker

  Exercise, Gun, Self

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• Compromise" is so often used in a bad sense that it is difficult to remember that properly it merely describes the process of reaching an agreement. Naturally there are certain subjects on which no man can compromise. For instance, there must be no compromise under any circumstances with official corruption, and of course no man should hesitate to say as much.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Compromise, Remember

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• There is nothing--no circumstance, no trouble, no testing--that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with a great purpose, which I may not understand at the moment. But as I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart, no sorrow will ever disturb me, no circumstance will cause me to fret, for I shall rest in the joy of what my Lord is--that is the rest of victory!

  Alan Redpath

  Love, God, Christian

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• Under extremely difficult circumstances (Iraq) pursues the inherently complicated task of rebuilding the country. Yet Iraq continues, courageously, to reach for the promise of a democratic, federal and pluralistic state, where generations of oppressed Iraqis will regain their dignity, freedom and the right to join the civilized and progressive nations of the world.

  Jalal Talabani

  Country, Iraq, Promise

  "Keep U.S., British forces in Iraq, says Talabani". The Toronto Star, September 23, 2006.

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• One suffers as a result of one's own actions. So, instead of blaming others for such sufferings, one should pray to the Lord and depending entirely on His grace, try to bear them patiently and with forbearance under all circumstances.

  Sarada Devi

  Grace, Suffering, Trying

  "Reminiscences of Holy Mother Sarada Devi" by Swami Chetanananda,

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• A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made ourselves to be. In truth, by the act of migration the country was made: by that voluntary act and by the emigrants' ambitions it was built.

  Paul Keating

  Country, Ambition, Migration

  Address to the Dáil Éireann, the lower house of parliament of the Republic of Ireland, September 20, 1993.

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• Those enjoying winning streaks thus win twofold. They win not only the game but also the right to greater self-determination. They become masters of their own fate. That feeling of efficacy, of being in charge of circumstances, is the essence of confidence. Winning once or twice is encouraging, but winning continuously is empowering.

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter

  Confidence, Determination, Fate

  Rosabeth Moss Kanter (2008). “Confidence”, p.61, Random House

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• But, clearly, the prime minister has laid down some ground rules which any functioning democratic state would insist upon, having to do with, you know, arms belonging to the state, not to -- not in private hands. The current circumstances come out of what I think is a very important and indeed appropriate action that the Iraqi government has taken.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Taken, Thinking, Government

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• The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary.

  John Rawls

  Justice, May, Normal

  John Rawls (2009). “A Theory of Justice”, p.109, Harvard University Press

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• In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself. The provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Government, Republic, France

  Speech on October 10, 1793. "Oeuvres Complètes de Saint-Just", Volume 2, pp. 83-88, 1908.

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• Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of those who fall by the way, not a misfortune to be pitied and relieved, but a moral failing to be condemned, and in riches, not an object of suspicion ... but the blessing which rewards the triumph of energy and will.

  R. H. Tawney

  Fall, Character, Blessing

  R. H. Tawney (2016). “Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism”, p.198, Verso Books

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• Anxiety prepares the organism badly for an ordeal which even under more favorable circumstances would not be an easy thing to bear.

  Henryk Sienkiewicz

  Anxiety, Bears, Easy

  Henryk Sienkiewicz (1897). “Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland”

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• To Marx the claim of the theory of ideology is that all doctrine is a derivative of social circumstance.

  Bernard Crick

  Doctrine, Derivatives, Social

  Bernard Crick (1962). “In Defence of Politics”

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• We do not have to be victims of circumstance.

  Kweisi Mfume

  Victim, Victims Of Circumstance

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• Privacy in one's associations... may in many circumstances be indispensable to freedom of association, particularly where a group espouses dissident beliefs.

  John Marshall Harlan II

  Justice, Groups, May

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• For man, the death of the body is inevitable, and is determined by time and circumstance; but, with proper precaution, the death of the soul may be totally avoided.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Men, Soul, Body

  William Batchelder Greene (1875). “Socialistic, Communistic, Mutualistic, and Financial Fragments”, p.81

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• All men, and all created nature, have been at work, from the beginning of time to this day, to produce the circumstances which now influence our actions. AS soon as an act has been performed, it becomes independent of the individual performing it, and forthwith gives birth to some other act, which last gives birth to still another, and so they continue, and will continue, until the law of cause and effect shall cease to operate.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Independent, Men, Law

  William Batchelder Greene (1843). “The Doctrine of Life: With Some of Its Theological Applications”, p.7

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• Maybe you just can't protect people from certain specialized types of folly with any sane amount of regulation, and the correct response is to give up on the high social costs of inadequately protecting people from themselves under certain circumstances.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Giving Up, People, Regulation

  Hacker News comment, news.ycombinator.com. Apr 12, 2012.

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